New Items as of April 24

 Here is a link to 18 "new" items which we have cataloged and scanned since the last post.

This April 24 batch is a pretty "dry"  collection, mostly old CHS and Pitt House papers which were found loose in the office and in the Pitt Bedroom this month. Rather than just put them into a filing cabinet, we thought it best to catalog and store them just like the "real" historical items. That way they can be easily found in the future.
*** Many of the CHS documents are available as PDF files for download***

#2564-1  Bill Pitt's "Sherwood Forest" typed sheets for house guests in the 1950s.


  Note:   "the bathroom is off the kitchen" -that's our office today.
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# 2567  the Old CHS Website from 2000 +-


#2575 is Prentice Crosier's "Tour and Guide to the Collection" from 2018, Revised 2023.
Although the house is being rearranged now,  this narrative is a nice (limited)  summary of the Pitt House Collection . The whole document is online for easy download here. 


#2346    Who Was Barnabas Taylor?.  We have 2 old daguerreotypes of him


The other has him as a younger man (not pictured here)

#3565  Sarah Bigelow Letters
There are 4 letters 1830s-1850s .  Nothing special here except that these are very old letters.


===== That's it for this batch======

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